Architect Stefan van Biljon's drawing

Architecture & Interiors/2014/Reel № 14.001

ByStefan van Biljon

Stefan van Biljon: Unearthing the urban unknown (trailer)

A Better Future Through Design/Recorded 2014

A close reading, kept within reach.

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Stefan van Biljon takes architecture & interiors as a lens on the larger question the festival keeps returning to: what design owes to the people and places it works among. The talk moves from specific projects toward a broader argument about practice.

Recorded in South Africa in 2014, the conversation is grounded in Stefan's own working method — the compromises, the constraints, and the moments where the work taught them something they didn't expect.

The closing turn is characteristic of the archive: less a conclusion than a provocation, handed to the audience to carry into their own disciplines.

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Architect Stefan van Biljon presents two projects in which he attempts to uncover the invisible forces that influence our relationships to our cities.

Stefan van Biljon

About the speaker

Stefan van Biljon

Cape Town/South Africa

Stefan van Biljon is an architect and part of the Pecha Kucha at Design Indaba 2014 Conference.